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As I understand it, you want a control panel bypass/over-ride switch that prevents any of the relay modules from triggering.  But you only have 12V DC at the control panel.

Assuming the 5V and 12V DC share a common Ground, you could do something like this which does not require an additional relay.

kens trains IR 1

That's good thinking to extrapolate using a 12K (instead of 5K) resistor since you have 12V instead of 5V DC.  12K is kind of an unusual value for the weekend-DIY'er so you might find 10K, 15K, 20K work equally well.

So if the control panel switch is "open", then 12V DC is not supplied to any of the relay modules (only 3 shown above using the miracle of cut-and-paste).  So none of the relay modules can trigger whether their respective beams are broken or not.

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